Shloka 79

अध्याय ९ — कर्णस्य प्रहारः, योधयुग्मनियोजनम्, शैनेय-कैकेययोर्युद्धविन्यासः

Devanagari script

द्यूतं॑ कृत्वा पुरा हृष्ो वज्चयित्वा च पाण्डवान्‌

Transliteration

dyūtaṃ kṛtvā purā hṛṣṭo vañcayitvā ca pāṇḍavān

Translation

Waiśaṃpāyana berkata: Dahulu kala ia pernah mengadakan permainan dadu; ia pun bersorak gembira, dan dengan tipu daya ia memperdaya para Pāṇḍava.

Word by Word

द्यूतम्gambling, dice-play

कृत्वाhaving done/made

पुराformerly, earlier

हृष्टःdelighted, elated

वञ्चयित्वाhaving deceived/cheated

चand

पाण्डवान्the Pandavas

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Pāṇḍavas

dyūta (dice-game)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights adharma in the form of gambling and deception: delight taken in winning through fraud becomes a moral fault that contributes to wider suffering, reminding the listener that unethical means corrupt outcomes and can ignite large-scale conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśaṃpāyana briefly recalls the earlier dice episode in which the Pāṇḍavas were cheated; this recollection functions as a causal reminder—an earlier act of deceit that helped drive events toward the Kurukṣetra war described in the Karṇa Parva.